SF News Condo Conversion Legislation Gets Amended With Ten-Year Moratorium As discussed back in February, Supervisors Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener have co-authored some legislation that will clear a 2,000-unit backlog of tenancies in common (TICs) and allow them to convert to
SF News Supe Laughs At Homeless Man's Cell Phone Use On Thursday, the state Public Utilities Commission expanded Lifeline, a landline phone service that donates free landlines to the poor, with cell phones. This is a good thing for many reasons -- e.
SF News The Apotheosis Of Scott Wiener Continues With 'SF Weekly' Cover Piece, 'SF Mag' Profile Did Supervisor Scott Wiener recently hire a publicist? San Francisco media is rather infatuated with him all of a sudden. He's been the butt of many a wiener joke with regard to the
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Rad S.F. Bars Deemed Historic Speaking of bars, two local bars noted for catering to two (dwindling?) minority groups were declared a historic landmarks by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Sam Jordan's in Bayview and Twin Peaks
SF News Chiu Re-Elected to Third Term as President of the Board of Supes At yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting, David Chiu was once again chosen as President of the Board, for his third consecutive term. Speculation about a possible changing of the guard in the President's
SF News Nudity Ban Approved, for Real, By Same Six Supervisors; One Protester Arrested The Board of Supervisors once again got an eyeful of ass, breasts, balls, and bush today in the Board chambers, and they once again voted to approve the citywide ban on nudity, which
SF News Final Vote Today For San Francisco's Nudity Ban Supporters of San Francisco's right to get naked in public could show up at City Hall today when the Board of Supervisors give their final vote on the city's controversial nudity ban. On
SF News More Wiener Drama: Blogger Arrested for Taking Photo Of Supervisor? It may be difficult to see the drama in this if one is not ensconced deeply in the politics of the Castro, but bear with us. Local blogger and activist Michael Petrelis claims
SF News Scott Wiener Seeking to Make Environmental Review Process Easier For Developers On the Planning Commission agenda this week is the continuation of a somewhat controversial item introduced by Supervisor Scott Wiener earlier this month that would limit the citizenry's ability to hold up development
SF News Nudists Hire a Lawyer Our city's gaggle of fervent nudists has lawyered up, ladies and gentlemen. This is about to get fun. Today we get word via Mitch Hightower, nudist ringleader, that he and his birthday-suited cohort
SF News Norman Yee Barely Leads In Historically Close D7 Race A week after election day, the race for the next Supervisor in the Parkside-to-Lakeside District 7 is down to a 33 vote lead for school board president and photoshopper of questionable taste Norman
SF News Will London Breed Be the New Chris Daly? We don't know a lot about London Breed beyond the fact that she was a Fire Commissioner, she runs the African American Art and Culture Complex, and she was allegedly pissed at Ed
SF News More D5 Drama: Eliana Lopez Weighs In On 'Olague Bullies' In case you haven't heard, about 900 people are running for Supervisor in District 5, the district recently supervised by Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, and temporarily covered the past eleven months by Christine Olague.
SF News D5 Candidate Julian Davis Gets Another Accusation Leveled Against Him [Updated] It seems a couple of women who've come in contact with District 5 supervisor candidate Julian Davis don't much care for his style of alleged sexual advances. Following on the claims made by
SF News He's The Sheriff: Ross Mirkarimi To Keep Job Despite a domestic-abuse conviction, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi gets to keep his job after the board of Supervisors refused allow Mayor Ed Lee to use official misconduct charges to get the embattled elected sheriff
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Might Lose His Job Today, Or Not The fate of suspended sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will likely be finalized today after the Board of Supervisors meets to discuss the Ethics Commission recommendation that he be permanently removed from office. As discussed
SF News Supervisors to Consider Allowing Even Tinier Micro-Apartments At tomorrow's Board of Supervisors meeting there's a proposal on the docket to change the city's building code to allow for the tiniest dwelling spaces in the country. The new micro-condos/mini-apartments would
SF News Supervisors Consider Ban on Overnight RV Parking You know that RV across the street that never seems to go anywhere and out of which occasionally stumbles a disheveled person? Well, Supervisor Carmen Chu wants to do something about that nonsense.
SF News Now Castro Supervisor Is Upset About Cock Rings After battling the Castro nudists who refused to put a towel down when they sat on public benches, San Francisco District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener has now told the Bay Area Reporter that
SF News Jane Kim: Bed Bug Warrior District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim is launching a new offensive against bed bugs, which have now become a citywide epidemic. She's introduced an ordinance that will codify several recommendations made by a working
SF News If Mayor Lee Loves Stop-And-Frisk So Much, Why Doesn't He Marry It? New updates today on Mayor Lee's controversial pet project, Actually, the only update is that, outside of the Mayor's office, no one seems to think exploring a stop-and-frisk policy is a good idea
Arts & Entertainment Congratulations, Supervisor Jane Kim, On Your First Self-Propelled Bike To Work Day For some San Francisco city officials today was just another beautiful day to ride a bike to work, but for District 6 Supervisor Jane Kim today marked her first solo expedition on Bike
SF News Supes, Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally At City Hall Over Fed Crackdown Six members of the Board of Supervisors, along with marijuana activists, dispensary owners, and representatives from George Gascon's and Dennis Herrera's offices gathered for a rally on the steps of City Hall yesterday
SF News Supes Propose Change In Muni's Stroller Policy As City Insider reports, Supervisors Chiu and Elsbernd are reconsidering Muni's decades-old policy regarding strollers on the bus in an effort to keep families from fleeing the city at the alarming rate we
SF News Supervisors Very Concerned About Cardboard Thieves, Bottle-and-Can Scavengers Here's a problem we didn't know was a problem: recycling theft. All those little Asian ladies and various other scavengers who go around pulling bottles and cans and cardboard out of bins in
